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improving mls photos: Home Staging Adds VaVoom for your Room! - 10/24/09 08:11 AM
Do you believe that home staging only applies to high end or custom homes?  Regardless of sales price, staging can help a home sell quicker and for more $$.
Nearly 90% of all home buyers look first on the internet for homes.  It’s a proven statistic that listings with photos get more views online.  Photos are key to marketing properties in all price ranges. 
Most home buyers are looking for more than a house.  They are shopping for a "home" and the lifestyle this home can offer them.  What do your listing photos say about the lifestyle your home provides?  Is … (11 comments)

improving mls photos: Real Estate Shows - Love them? Hate them? Compare! - 09/07/09 10:43 AM
Say slide show and I still think of sitting in my aunt's living room with the lights down low, watching reel after reel of slides from travels and drifting off into "the zone".
You know "the zone".
Your eyes are open but you aren't really "seeing". That's the last think I want to happen when people check out our photos!
Fantastic photos are key to real estate so today I've been playing on with different "slide" shows.
For several months I've been using Real Estate Shows.  Love how they post and link to the MLS, youtube and so many real estate … (18 comments)

improving mls photos: It Time to Straighten Up! - 05/24/09 05:39 AM
Ever look at photos where the floor isn't level - hmmm is it the photo or is the house not structurally sound?  Or noticed a doorway that is at an angle in a photo that you thought would be perfect?
So often when I'm taking photos, I tend to lean to the left or the right - it's a minor lean, but obvious when I'm editing photos and so annoying when everything else in the shot Is great.  I've tried to line my shots up so doorframes are straight, etc, but sometimes when using a wide angle lens it's difficult for … (20 comments)

improving mls photos: What Can I Tell From YOUR MLS Photos? - 05/19/09 07:50 AM
Won't you look at this listing and see what you think?  I get this request frequently as do most stagers from agents and home sellers.  When we get these requests I usually go onto the MLS or Trulia and look at the photos and a couple of comparative properties, and try to zip out a response within 15 minutes or so of my initial impressions.   BUT -- when I received a request this week it took me quite awhile to really be able to analyze the property -- why?  Here are the MLS photos - what do YOU think?


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Margaret Oscilia-Home Stager, Salem Oregon

Salem, OR

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